Private parking companies are the scum of the earth yet appear so legal and professional.

No one I know has ever paid a private parking charge they’ve either escalated to the point of going to court and said company has dropped it or they’ve just refused and the company gave up. But my point comes from what happened to me at the gym the other week, my gyms in a retail park but the gym have a break off car park area which has 3 bays and 2 non marked spaces. The gym owns this space and has repeatedly told the parking company to stop enforcing the non bay parking as its mostly managers (which will just get the ticket thrown out) parked there or members when the big car park is full.

The ticket wardens are all normally dressed people, I know this because I see them taking pictures on their phone of non disabled people parked in disabled spots which is fair enough. I parked in the non marked position the other day and as I’m getting things out of my boot a man is lingering around me. Didn’t pay much attention to him at the time but turns out he was a warden waiting for me to leave so he could ticket me which he did. Ticket arrived which was SIXTY BLOODY POUNDS btw and I took it into the gym office, the manager got it thrown out for me. Went back on the cctv for the day and the sneaky bastard waited for me to leave, snapped pictures of my car and literally jogged off.